Anyone get MoonSharked Lately?

Yes, the main page is moonsharking me repeatedly (if it even lets me through). The last error number was 616541900 but I doubt it helps much. I have noticed increasing frequent front page problems whether it is the site itself or just the comments system.

I'm getting the same moonshark appearing over the forums, but it's on the regular version, not any mobile device. I don't even know of anything that loads in that area. It's above the Ars logo and my login info.

Your add servers suck this morning.number: 1517710270, is the errorOn an iPad for this one but all your add spots are moonsharking this morning. Forums seem to work better in iPad safari than on my Mac version of safari. The content still loads bellow the moonsharking graphic rather than being totally blocked by the graphic as it is on the desktop.

Edit actually desktop safari also loads the forums below the moonshark graphic. my mistake or I remember an older moonshark behavior. from the last round of these.

I'm getting MoonShark'd ads as well about 50% of the time or more, both in the forums, and on the front page (obscures most of the latest front page stories in IE9 due to a large MoonShark for the top banner ad).

Does the person handling the server's maintenance wield the title of "Senior Server About-Fucker"?

Because he's doing a hell of a Job as far as us EU dudes are concerned

Sadly nobody seems to care, because I suspect most of the traffic is US-based so everyone outside of that timezone can GFT.

Please give them a bit of time. Most peoples work day on the east coast just started. Most of the ars staff starts on Chicago time one hour latter. PM Caesar or one of the others if you don't get some help soon.

Does the person handling the server's maintenance wield the title of "Senior Server About-Fucker"?

Because he's doing a hell of a Job as far as us EU dudes are concerned

Sadly nobody seems to care, because I suspect most of the traffic is US-based so everyone outside of that timezone can GFT.

Please give them a bit of time. Most peoples work day on the east coast just started. Most of the ars staff starts on Chicago time one hour latter. PM Caesar or one of the others if you don't get some help soon.

I'm not referring to this instance specifically, but these outages have been going on for a long time. The forced meme of Moonshark was seemingly meant to turn it into a quirky Fail Whale-type deflection, but downtime is downtime.

On Sunday (yesterday) I was working on transitioning some of our projects over to a new build system. One of those projects is our varnish proxy and during the process of testing the build/deploy process, a change I'd made locally as an experiment and forgot I'd made got committed and deployed out . This happened 19 hours ago.

Unfortunately it wasn't a change that immediately broke anything and really only began to exhibit itself in edge cases and probably became exacerbated by higher load this morning. I've reverted that change and everything appears to be stabilizing now.

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As for the ongoing moonshark battle, we continue work with our hosting provider, Server Central, to tweak our nightly backup process given our hardware and budget contraints. I track the occurrences of Moonsharks, which are just forum application backend errors thats Varnish hides from you. We've significantly decreased the occurrence of these over the past weeks and months and the only meaningful spate of them come during the period of time each night when we're performing the backups, and even these are becoming more and more rare.

On top of tracking when a client is shown the Moonshark page, we also monitor the site and the forums (and many of our other applications) on the ServerCentral side with Nagios and we track this ourselves using Pingdom, so I see when there's any kind of meaningful downtime on the site and we act accordingly to determine why that happened and what we can do to reduce it.

As for the ongoing moonshark battle, we continue work with our hosting provider, Server Central, to tweak our nightly backup process given our hardware and budget contraints. I track the occurrences of Moonsharks, which are just forum application backend errors thats Varnish hides from you. We've significantly decreased the occurrence of these over the past weeks and months and the only meaningful spate of them come during the period of time each night when we're performing the backups, and even these are becoming more and more rare.

Recent experience, and not just what happened over the weekend, does not match with that you are saying. While I don't have access to your stats, my personal experience over the last month-6 weeks is that they are getting worse. They have gotten so frequent that I have stopped reporting them.

That's that the only shark that mooned me, but I've gotten several time-outs (from my browser, not from an adult) within the last 10 or 15 minutes, and am barely able to use the forum at all right now. Took a couple of shots to get here. I note that the front page comments interface works, though very, very slowly - for me. Other sites seem OK for me right now, but I admit that this could very easily be a problem at my end. (Qwest hates me.)